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Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Rudge 'ordinary' or 'penny farthing' bicycle

1884

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Model steam locomotive, North Eastern Railway

1884

Mantel clock, presented to T.W. Worsdell - Great Eastern Railway

circa 1885

Brass worksplate no 917, Manning Wardle & Co

1884

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Enamel watch depicting the Virgin and Child

1880

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Model steam locomotive

1882

Tailboard, North Eastern Railway

1880

Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement

1705-1737

Watch by Sir John Bennett

1884

Spagnoletti intermediate signalling instrument

1885

Replica of Morse's second model of telegraphy apparatus, 1934

1934

Replica of Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1st Class carriage 'Traveller'

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Child's Ordinary bicycle (c. 1880)

circa 1880

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Lancashire Loom

circa 1880

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Boxhill

1880

Set of wheels from Blenkinsop Railway locomotive

1880

Crossley telephone receiver, 1880

1880

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB

1990-95

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Parsons' steam turbine generator, 1884

1884

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Rigged model of the "Cutty Sark"

1900-1933 (model); 1869 (original)

Carte de visite of Ethel Friese-Greene and cousins

circa 1880

Midland Railway composite carriage

1885

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

Model, rigged, of the sailing ship 'Sudbourn'

1884

Colour lithograph of the November Meteors 1868

1882

Colour lithograph of the Great Comet of 1881

1882

Colour lithograph of partial lunar eclipse

1882

Colour lithograph of the zodiacal light

1882

Etching, hand-coloured. Gurney's New Steam Carriage. Annotated

1885

Ball bearing from an 'ordinary' bicycle

1880-1885

Sperm oil hub lamp for bicycles,

1885

Cyclometer, Kittoe's patent, 1883

1883

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Sir W. Thomson's magnetic deflector

1880

Reversible axe on adze, green stone blade, North Papua (Astrolabe Bay)

2000 BCE